Beyond Adoption: Teaching the Open Education Landscape
At the UT System Momentum on OER Convening, I kept thinking about what higher education too often skips: the moment before adoption. The part where educators need structure, not cheerleading; method, not mandate. In this post, I reflect on that experience and share openly available resources, including a mini-lesson series and the OER Tracker, designed to make OER exploration more rigorous, transparent, and usable across roles.
McGraw Hill’s “Buyer’s Guide” to OER Is a Marketing Brochure Wearing Academic Glasses
McGraw Hill’s “Buyer’s Guide” to OER isn’t a neutral comparison. It’s a framing device. I read it through care ethics and open education values, pulled the key claims, and annotated what’s missing: consent, privacy, academic freedom, and who the “ROI” is really for.
